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NetBeans Reviews

1. Creating
NetBeans Ruby Hints with Scala - Part 1 -- Exploring
Beautiful Languages, 11/12
Developer Luis Diego Fallas takes his audience through his effort to
leverage the NetBeans Ruby Hints and Quick Fixes along with the Scala
language to create a NetBeans Ruby Hint. His motivation was to
help Ruby beginners figure out alternative ways of accomplishing tasks.

2. Eclipse
RCP "Clearly Superior" to NetBeans?? May I disagree? -- Javalobby,
11/8
Blogger Fabrizio Giudici writes about how he takes issue with a claim
by Mike Milinkovic in an eWEEK article about how Eclipse is "clearly
superior" because it is a platform backed by an open community, and
should not be compared to NetBeans on this basis. He feels that
subjective opinions should always be factored in, and uses his
experience with both platforms as an example, where NetBeans has come
to service his needs much better because it doesn't use Swing and
therefore is not as useful for developing desktop applications

3. Eclipse
Veteran Tries NetBeans 6 -- David Heffelfinger's Notes on
Software Development, Technology and Life, 11/7
This Eclipse developer reveals how he decided to try NetBeans 6 because
of its inclusion of the Woodstock JSF component library. He
states up front that he is "impressed with NetBeans 6" because of how
easy it is to use as a visual JSF development environment. He
balanced this praise with issues he has with integrating with
Maven. He states that if JSF visual development worked better
with Maven, he would be tempted to dump Eclipse.